NATCHEZ, Miss. ( WJTV ) – A teenager, who escaped from the Henley-Young-Patten Juvenile Justice Center earlier this year, pled guilty to second-degree homicide in Adams County.

The Natchez Democrat reported Tayshon Holmes was 15 when he killed Bill Calvin, Jr., 19, in 2021. Calvin went missing in July 2021, and his body was later found on October 25, 2021, in a wooded area.

Investigators determined that Holmes shot Calvin in the head.

Holmes also pled guilty on Wednesday, October 9 to the carjacking of a Natchez woman outside a church on January 8. This crime occurred after Holmes, Jashon Jones and Robert Earl Smith escaped from the Henley-Young-Patten Juvenile Justice Center in Hinds County. All three juveniles were later arrested .

Holmes was sentenced to 40 years with 30 years to serve on the homicide charge, as well as 10 years on the carjacking charge. Both sentences will run consecutively.

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